[CentOS] Verify tomcat config

Sun Mar 27 23:37:18 UTC 2011
Charles Polisher <cpolish at surewest.net>

lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> 
>  I'm going to retire an old RHEL3 server and move the services to CentOS5.
>  In particular, the web server is giving me a headache. On the old box, there's
>  a hacked-up httpd/mod_jk/tomcat setup, and CentOS is perfect for the new
>  box because the required components are included and the whole setup "just
>  works" straight from installation.
> 
>  There seems to be surprisingly little documentation or how-tos on how to
>  migrate from the above setup to httpd/mod_proxy_ajp/tomcat. I believe I
>  have it working correctly on a test machine, but am looking for someone to
>  look over the config to make sure it's correct and complete.
> 
>  The desired setup is:
>  - httpd receives all requests
>  - httpd processes all requests for static content
>  - httpd passes all requests for dynamic content to tomcat
> 
>  Most examples I found seem to assume that all queries, including static, are
>  pased on to tomcat. To implement the correct behaviour, I came up with this
>  conf.d fragment:

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I hope you'll post the outcome of your research.
-- 
Charles Polisher